Sentence examples for amounts of contraction from inspiring English sources

For at least a year, the economy has been experiencing what Bank of England governor Mervyn King called a zigzag pattern, alternating between small amounts of growth and small amounts of contraction, registering almost no overall growth.

Wedgwood noticed that very high temperatures made pieces of clay shrink, and created a temperature scale by assuming that the amount of contraction was proportional to temperature beyond "red heat".

It has also been observed that the amount of contraction and excess pore water pressure generation increases with increase in confining pressure for both Panki and Panipat pond ash samples under undrained condition.

Furthermore, the amount of contraction across the fold-and-thrust fault belts is so large, reaching 10 15 km from Pliocene to Quaternary (Okada and Ikeda 2012), that the subsurface fault structure is distinctly illustrated by gravity anomalies and their derivatives.

Significant differences were found in the 5-HT doses eliciting roughly the same amount of contraction: migraine patients (examined in headache-free period) are more sensible (lower 5-HT dose) than controls (P < 0.001), migraine women are more sensible than migraine men (P < 0.001).

The amount of contraction of the planet derived from the distribution, lengths, and heights of lobate scarps (e.g., Strom et al. 1975; Byrne et al. 2014), on the other hand, places constraints on the minimum amount of volatiles in the core, as well as on the cooling rate of the planet since the late heavy bombardment (LHB; Hauck et al. 2004; Breuer et al. 2007; Grott et al. 2011; Tosi et al. 2013).

GM/WM volume (modulated GM/WM segments) was acquired from unmodulated GM/WM segments after scaling amount of contraction during spatial normalization.

Muellbacher et al. [5] and Baraduc et al. [13] previously examined a similar ballistic learning task in the hand and found that rTMS of the primary motor cortex (M1) at a similar rate (i.e. 1 Hz) and producing a similar amount of contraction as in our volitional task abolished retention.

The amount of contraction was reported as the percent of maximum contraction achieved in vehicle control.

Control cells showed a large amount of contraction post dispase lift.

The amount of contraction is to roughly a quarter of the original sheet area if used immediately.